Hey man! Thanks for all the recent reactions, I've really enjoyed them. I'm glad you've been enjoying my work too! Control has such a deep and mysterious world and lore that I fell in love with so the song is very much about exploring that. The idea was to write something that makes *just enough* sense to get people intrigued if they have not played it but a LOT of sense if you have played it. So people who listen, then play, then come back and listen again can see a whole new layer of meanings behind the lyrics.
I was going to say that it's amazing how everything in the song sounds like a metaphor, but in the context of the game, most of it is literal. The double meaning of the title itself is sheer brilliance. It sounds like an attempt to tell the story of the game in such a way that it's not obvious that it's the story of the game, which seems like exactly what you were aiming to do. So well done!
This song is next level writing and is FULL of the game's references and lore. Control was my Game of the Year for 2019 and remains one of my top three games of all time and Stupendium absolutely slayed this song. A pure masterpiece. I really recommend you play the game, Dave. The song means so much more if you play the game. SO MUCH MORE.
You're definitely right in that the Stupendium straddles that line between the songs being about the game and the songs telling a story outside of the game. Honestly listening to some stupendium songs has made me actually interested in a game I'd otherwise just not have considered precisely because of that
interestingly, one of the few songs of his that isn't completely coated in social commentary. it's almost entirely about control's plot. which is heavily based on the internet-writing-session that is the SCP foundation.
I would argue that this song has a lot of social commentary. It doesn't have the political charge (for lack of a better description) as some of his other songs. This one is more akin to his Kingdom Hearts and his Subnautica songs. A bit more chill, but still full of meaning. This is a comment made without playing the game, so I keep that in mind.
@@anythingyoucando1546 any social commentary you spot is not from stupes in this case, because again, it's basically just "control: the musical". and it's not like control is absent of social commentary, it's got one or two things to say about government surveillance for example, but stupendium just chose not to lean into it for this one.
@@Yal_Rathol This seems like an enjoyable subject I would like to talk about more with. I just can't find the words to adequately describe what I want to say. The power of choices, agency. Some as more of a warning spin and some as a positive and wonderful thing to have. This song feels like it steps into both sides of the boundary. I wanted to play the game after hearing this song. Take care.
because i dont feel like theres many themes to build on control is like junji ito's work, someone asked the question of "wouldnt it be fucked up if..." and then they made a game about it
3:50 My favourite part of this song, aside from the countless references to the actual gameplay, is this snippet of the Doctor explaining AWEs and what they do. Specifically, The capatolisation on "Ordinary." *Where reality cracks and impacts on the next* *And dimensions fragment as the astral projects* *On benign, undefined archetypal objects* *Until* Ordinary's *torn up and normal defects*
Stupendium is a next level writer and I want to point out something I haven't seen anyone mention. How in each bridge when "the board" interjects into the song, he writes their abstract speech patterns perfectly, for instance the line "build you till nothing remains". Everything the board says is mired in contradictions and interpretive difference. Stupendium does great work because he plays and researches the games he raps about on a level you don't see from many other nerdcore artists
@chancecompton4061 the board has that weird/unique way of talking/communing with Jesse/Director/Player and their speech/knowledge itself is ineligible/enlightend by the FBC/NPCs/People's standards The Hiss has that currepted red theme.
I also watched this song first, then bought and played the game, still thankful to Stupendium for that recommendation. This song probably is more heavily dependent on the game lore than some of his other projects, but you are right - it is very interesting to form your impressions and thoughts without playing the game and then, in the playthrough, find all that references and connections that he made in the song (and even then you'll still be firmly in the place of wild guesses and personal interpretations). Great reaction, keep them coming!
This is interesting. To me, the song is a huge metaphor for the mind and how it works. In the hook, Cami-Cat mentions patterns and 'something else' in one line: "Where patterns end and you begin". Could we be an anomaly? Not even that, could our minds be the anomalies? In the Scientist's second verse, Stoop says "in parallel, in paradox". Could this be referring to the fact that it's our mind, so we should be able to understand it yet we don't? It's a paradox; it doesn't make sense. But "in parallel" must be referring to the fact that we're all human; biologically speaking, every human has the same brain, but "in paradox", we all think differently. Taking this a step further, could those two lines be referring to Neurotypicals (NT) and Neurodivergents (ND)? ND's are people who are autistic, dyslexic, have ADHD, CPTSD, etc. We might all be human, but based on the anomaly of our own minds, we're separated in two. NT's and ND's are parallel in the sense that they're both human, but it's a paradox in that we don't all think similarly. Also in the hook, Cami's last line is "Load another slide into the void". Could this be in reference to our minds themselves? A void is an endless cavern; something with no end and no beginning. I feel that that's exactly what our minds are. Heck, we don't even know all that's in our own minds! There have ben numerous times where I was brought back to a memory I didn't even know I had! "Load another slide into the void" might very well be in reference to out memories. We're loading another memory slide into the void that is our mind; we're remembering something. Something interesting to point out as well is the last repeat of the hook: "But should your towers fall, Free your mind and heed the call, Go the the Projector, Load another slide into the void". we're supposed to remember something; it's our duty to remember, but what? This actually calls back to the Scientist's second verse as well: "We are holding the key, we just don't see the locks!". What are we supposed to remember? And for what purpose? Shockingly, this is supported by the Scientist's first verse. All throughout it, they're referring to a 'them' that's trying to get inside and is describing what it is and what it does. It's described as something that can send signals that have enough energy to go through cement, it's where reality cracks and alters world events. It's an Object of Power and a light that can hijack your mind. It's compared to a safe that's surrounded by debris as well as a key to a perceived reality. The object is feeding off of our minds as they repeat over and over again. Memories can seem to be a rift between reality and an alternate dimension of sorts. Because of this, some people remember big world events differently or even completely wrong. Having memories compared to a light that can hijack one's mind makes sense because if an unwanted memory pops up, it can feel like it's hijacking you; taking over your life in that moment as it can loop over and over. If it repeats enough, it can feel like your mind is fragmenting. Some memories we purposefully keep locked away in a safe that's painful to open again. Possibly the most interesting line here is "These frequencies are frequently the key to what's perceived to be". It's not saying that the perceptions are key, but instead the frequencies themselves; the brainwaves, if you will. I haven't figured out what the other two comparisons mean yet, but I will think more on this. Anyway, I think I'll leave this here. This was unbelievably fun to do; there's so much to unpack it's insane! I'll definitely be turning this into a true essay in my own time so I can dissect the lyrics more! I actually want to do this with all of Stoop's songs if possible! But that's just a theory! A MUSIC theory! Thanks for ... reading my rant. Later, dooders!~
The slide projector bit is just Control lore. The Slide Projector projects gateways into other worlds via slides loaded in. You have to turn it off to save everyone in Control.
The "Paradise and parasite, in parallel, in paradox" I'm pretty sure is referring to hedron/polaris and the hiss resonance, both are extradimensional incorporeal entities that enter peoples' minds, but while the hiss resonance takes them over, polaris is a benevolent force that simply shields most people from the hiss and lightly guides Jesse (Main character) both prior to and during the events of the game in while they're in dangerous situations The "them" is probably referring to the hiss resonance and how after entering the same dimension, nothing halted it any way (besides hedron/polaris) Altered world events are anomalous situations that occur, often involving an "object of power" both the "light that can hijack your mind" and "safe that's encased in a shield of debris" are examples of OoPs, them both being different objects of power, more examples of OoPs include the projector, which allows visiting other dimensions, the flying TV mentioned in the song, and the floppy disk being held by stupendium at that moment, which held nuclear launch codes, and gives telekinesis (telekinetically LAUNCHing) "These Frequencies frequently the key to what's perceived to be" is likely anothe reference to the hiss resonance, and how when you are taken over by it, you are trapped in a false facade, where things seem normal, but nothing you are seeing is real and you are doing nothing, realizing this seems to cause the facade to drop away and the experience becomes more distorted (I really don't know exactly how to describe this) "Free your mind" is again also likely a reference to the hiss resonance and how it takes people over.
Fun fact: it as this song that got me to play Control. After having listened to it several times, I still missed the dang 'Rule of 3' the first time I tried to go to the Ocean View. Pulled once, stepped forward cause I thought it was like an effect or something (and there was still a lot of dark) and fell to my death. And yet, *in the song* you can see Stups pull the cord *3* times. *headdesk*
I know people have mentioned this before, but you should _really_ watch the outros of Stupendium's videos. They're very much part of the experience. It almost hurts to see you just immediately pause the video and miss out on the outro.
Honestly, my favorite part of this is that they actually made a sort of chorus out of the Hiss Chant. That's what those three segments of "You hear our words, but you forget" and "pushing through the first floor" are, parts of that Chant that have been tweaked a bit to make it flow better.
I haven't played the game however, I take this song and understand it in a totally different light. In my mind, Higher Dimensional Intelligent beings do exist. We just can't see or hear them. We know higher dimensions exist but are inaccessible to us. "A copy of a copy of copy" basically in another place, another world much like the one we live in, there's another version of you. Going through similar actions that you do but in rare moments a copy of you differs from that track. This song while made based on a game, depicts topics that are very much a thing. These topics I enjoy discussing.
What's absolutely rediculous and awesome about this song is that I 100% get your meaning, and agree with it. But because I have played the game, there's a whole new layer to it as well that also makes sense. It's amazing how he weaved together lore, plot, and made it easily enjoyable for those not in the fandom.
The 'Copy of a copy of a copy' is actually a reference to a viral incantation/resonance that infects your mind and grants an extradimensional hive-mind control over your body. The hive-mind is called the Hiss, and it's the main... 'Enemy' of the game? It's the thing you're trying to stop, I mean. Basically what I'm trying to say is, the 'copy of a copy of a copy' line DOES reference inter-dimensional powers beyond what humanity considers normal, just in a different way than you interpreted it.
Man I love your energy. The way you talk seems to me that you're the kind of guy who even on a bad day will put a smile and let the bad mood slide into the void. That feeling in infectious, so, thanks for all of your videos. After seeing two or three I feel a little better to deal with the other stuff.
Reason why stupendiums normal rapping in this is "weird" is because, normally he raps to give synapsis or he sings through multiple people to give the story.. Here he raps thro one person, and that person is trying to help you. Which gives it entirely new feeling, since only reason you would know my statement to be true is to have played the game. Projector parts are obv. different scema to give information. Putting them together + being unfamiliar with the game story + having understanding of normal stupendium leaves creepy feeling.. and tbh, it speaks about stupendiums (&dan bulls) lyrical mastermind that the same feeling will be there whether you know the game or not, just for different reasons.. or the same.. the games theme is kinda easy to grasp... (And as a Finnish guy, I am obligated by law(kidding) to praise it, since made in Finland + Janitor is reference to Finnish mythology)
Stupes has _massive_ Rod Serling energy in this video. This video made me fall in love with the game a year before I actually played it when it finally came to Steam.
Seriously. Control is a big game Into itself, that being said if you haven't played it in full, you're missing the Finnish tango. For those that know, ya know.
Haven't played the game so it's hard to put a finger on the meaning, but I like the song a lot. The lyrics are like a bunch of puzzle pieces that you can almost put together. Then you look at the pieces and they have oxymorons written on them.
I really love all the double meanings and wordplay in this song. Also my favourite song to lift my mood :) The vibe is amazing and Control is a favourite of mine as well
I love this song. It is one of my favorite songs that Stupendium has done. I have not played the game Control at all, so I get a lot of life choices vibes from this. For example, people look for education/direction/distraction, then proceed forward with their choice. I love the meta analogies' that can be made through stories.
i actually bought this game BECAUSE of this video.... and Ooooo OMG I love it... but it is HARD AF!!! ... YAY!!! and TY DAVE for doing this to me... um.. i meant... um... >.>
I'd summarise his style as mostly not making songs about games but making songs from game worlds. Then how they can run parallel to ours sometimes as well.
Yknow, I knew these guys made video game music. I didn't even know what game.this was from at first. I don't like most of their stuff. But this song just hits different It's like being on psychedelics or astrally projecting. It's eerie, psuedo real. It feels like desperately clawing around in madness for answers to questions. But you don't even know what the question is. You got it right when you said this song is about more than the game.
I will say, my initial reaction to this was that nothing really makes any sense if you look into it. It proposed a theory to me that we wouldn't understand the truthful answers to a lot of humanity's philosophical questions, none of it would make any sense. I felt that especially when you see the sort of before and after of the scientist in the video, and how he just drives himself crazy trying to understand something that doesn't make sense. I'm sure the characters have a lot of importance and the song is pretty much just about the game, but that's the message it gave me. Some things are best taken at face value and ultimately we are not the deciders of what is and isn't sensible.
Even if you don’t include it in the reaction, make sure to watch the end for each video. It is always on theme and most often ends on some witty line or pun. :)
Huge fan of your vids, The Stupendium, and of Control. I would always recommend someone to check out the game and finish it for themselves. I finished it twice, including the DLCs, and still get confused when I try to remember it.
Also you should play the game its actually based on lovecraftian influences. H.p. lovecraft horror projects the uselessness and madness that impossibilities can push on a humans mind.
I feel like you couldn't possibly understand this without playing the game, probably. I haven't played it so I have no idea. I honestly doubt the people that play the game will understand it either. lol
Not me getting heavy Stephen King's The Institute vibes (speaking as someone who has never heard the song before or played the game, something of which will be I immediately absorbing all knowledge of after this video is over-)
Can you "beat" "Control", I mean yeah, but when I finished it I just fell silent. Sure Finnish guy loving games by a Finnish company, I didn't like Alan Wake that much, but Control was something else.
I'll never understand why stups included the sections where cami cat just says non rhyming weird half sentences in an off beat. Like seriously why the fuck is that in this otherwise amazing song?
the “you don’t want to be” parts? Those are lines from the Hiss Chant, a chant played in Control, endlessly, in the background. It’s actually amazing that he found a way to include such an esoteric part of Control.
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Hey man! Thanks for all the recent reactions, I've really enjoyed them. I'm glad you've been enjoying my work too!
Control has such a deep and mysterious world and lore that I fell in love with so the song is very much about exploring that. The idea was to write something that makes *just enough* sense to get people intrigued if they have not played it but a LOT of sense if you have played it. So people who listen, then play, then come back and listen again can see a whole new layer of meanings behind the lyrics.
At least NemRaps didn´t get iced in this one XD. Love your newest song, nearly made me cry.
Was just thinking of trying to reach out to Stupendium about this dude giving you the right attention =) He gives justice to your amazing songs
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Your song is what convinced me to buy the game, and boy was I glad I did.
I was going to say that it's amazing how everything in the song sounds like a metaphor, but in the context of the game, most of it is literal. The double meaning of the title itself is sheer brilliance. It sounds like an attempt to tell the story of the game in such a way that it's not obvious that it's the story of the game, which seems like exactly what you were aiming to do. So well done!
The game is roughly scp but it carries with it the absurdity of existential horror where things don't make sense so it's both horrifying and silly
SCP *is* both horror and silly, the game is pulling from both sides of that
Believe it or not but control was inspired by SCP
@@enderdragoncrafter2412 I remember those marketing images they put out that a bunch of people thought were SCP.
I was thinking that
The game is SCP in the House of Leaves undergoing a Black Mesa Incident
This song is next level writing and is FULL of the game's references and lore. Control was my Game of the Year for 2019 and remains one of my top three games of all time and Stupendium absolutely slayed this song. A pure masterpiece. I really recommend you play the game, Dave. The song means so much more if you play the game. SO MUCH MORE.
You're definitely right in that the Stupendium straddles that line between the songs being about the game and the songs telling a story outside of the game. Honestly listening to some stupendium songs has made me actually interested in a game I'd otherwise just not have considered precisely because of that
interestingly, one of the few songs of his that isn't completely coated in social commentary. it's almost entirely about control's plot.
which is heavily based on the internet-writing-session that is the SCP foundation.
I would argue that this song has a lot of social commentary. It doesn't have the political charge (for lack of a better description) as some of his other songs. This one is more akin to his Kingdom Hearts and his Subnautica songs. A bit more chill, but still full of meaning.
This is a comment made without playing the game, so I keep that in mind.
@@anythingyoucando1546 any social commentary you spot is not from stupes in this case, because again, it's basically just "control: the musical".
and it's not like control is absent of social commentary, it's got one or two things to say about government surveillance for example, but stupendium just chose not to lean into it for this one.
@@Yal_Rathol This seems like an enjoyable subject I would like to talk about more with. I just can't find the words to adequately describe what I want to say. The power of choices, agency. Some as more of a warning spin and some as a positive and wonderful thing to have. This song feels like it steps into both sides of the boundary. I wanted to play the game after hearing this song. Take care.
because i dont feel like theres many themes to build on
control is like junji ito's work, someone asked the question of "wouldnt it be fucked up if..." and then they made a game about it
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My favourite part of this song, aside from the countless references to the actual gameplay, is this snippet of the Doctor explaining AWEs and what they do.
Specifically, The capatolisation on "Ordinary."
*Where reality cracks and impacts on the next*
*And dimensions fragment as the astral projects*
*On benign, undefined archetypal objects*
*Until* Ordinary's *torn up and normal defects*
Stupendium is a next level writer and I want to point out something I haven't seen anyone mention. How in each bridge when "the board" interjects into the song, he writes their abstract speech patterns perfectly, for instance the line "build you till nothing remains". Everything the board says is mired in contradictions and interpretive difference. Stupendium does great work because he plays and researches the games he raps about on a level you don't see from many other nerdcore artists
The "build you till nothing remains" is actually a Hiss line, not a board line. The Hiss says it
I think you meant the Hiss, but absolutely true!!!
@@gengarghast oh, it is? I just saw the syntax and immediately figured it was the board talking.
@chancecompton4061 the board has that weird/unique way of talking/communing with Jesse/Director/Player and their speech/knowledge itself is ineligible/enlightend by the FBC/NPCs/People's standards
The Hiss has that currepted red theme.
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Think of a lovechild between SCP and Lovecraftian mythos, and you have a rough baseline of what Control is like.
I also watched this song first, then bought and played the game, still thankful to Stupendium for that recommendation. This song probably is more heavily dependent on the game lore than some of his other projects, but you are right - it is very interesting to form your impressions and thoughts without playing the game and then, in the playthrough, find all that references and connections that he made in the song (and even then you'll still be firmly in the place of wild guesses and personal interpretations).
Great reaction, keep them coming!
This is interesting. To me, the song is a huge metaphor for the mind and how it works. In the hook, Cami-Cat mentions patterns and 'something else' in one line: "Where patterns end and you begin". Could we be an anomaly? Not even that, could our minds be the anomalies?
In the Scientist's second verse, Stoop says "in parallel, in paradox". Could this be referring to the fact that it's our mind, so we should be able to understand it yet we don't? It's a paradox; it doesn't make sense. But "in parallel" must be referring to the fact that we're all human; biologically speaking, every human has the same brain, but "in paradox", we all think differently.
Taking this a step further, could those two lines be referring to Neurotypicals (NT) and Neurodivergents (ND)? ND's are people who are autistic, dyslexic, have ADHD, CPTSD, etc. We might all be human, but based on the anomaly of our own minds, we're separated in two. NT's and ND's are parallel in the sense that they're both human, but it's a paradox in that we don't all think similarly.
Also in the hook, Cami's last line is "Load another slide into the void". Could this be in reference to our minds themselves? A void is an endless cavern; something with no end and no beginning. I feel that that's exactly what our minds are. Heck, we don't even know all that's in our own minds! There have ben numerous times where I was brought back to a memory I didn't even know I had! "Load another slide into the void" might very well be in reference to out memories. We're loading another memory slide into the void that is our mind; we're remembering something.
Something interesting to point out as well is the last repeat of the hook: "But should your towers fall, Free your mind and heed the call, Go the the Projector, Load another slide into the void". we're supposed to remember something; it's our duty to remember, but what? This actually calls back to the Scientist's second verse as well: "We are holding the key, we just don't see the locks!". What are we supposed to remember? And for what purpose?
Shockingly, this is supported by the Scientist's first verse. All throughout it, they're referring to a 'them' that's trying to get inside and is describing what it is and what it does. It's described as something that can send signals that have enough energy to go through cement, it's where reality cracks and alters world events. It's an Object of Power and a light that can hijack your mind. It's compared to a safe that's surrounded by debris as well as a key to a perceived reality. The object is feeding off of our minds as they repeat over and over again.
Memories can seem to be a rift between reality and an alternate dimension of sorts. Because of this, some people remember big world events differently or even completely wrong. Having memories compared to a light that can hijack one's mind makes sense because if an unwanted memory pops up, it can feel like it's hijacking you; taking over your life in that moment as it can loop over and over. If it repeats enough, it can feel like your mind is fragmenting. Some memories we purposefully keep locked away in a safe that's painful to open again.
Possibly the most interesting line here is "These frequencies are frequently the key to what's perceived to be". It's not saying that the perceptions are key, but instead the frequencies themselves; the brainwaves, if you will. I haven't figured out what the other two comparisons mean yet, but I will think more on this.
Anyway, I think I'll leave this here. This was unbelievably fun to do; there's so much to unpack it's insane! I'll definitely be turning this into a true essay in my own time so I can dissect the lyrics more! I actually want to do this with all of Stoop's songs if possible!
But that's just a theory! A MUSIC theory! Thanks for ... reading my rant. Later, dooders!~
The slide projector bit is just Control lore. The Slide Projector projects gateways into other worlds via slides loaded in. You have to turn it off to save everyone in Control.
The "Paradise and parasite, in parallel, in paradox" I'm pretty sure is referring to hedron/polaris and the hiss resonance, both are extradimensional incorporeal entities that enter peoples' minds, but while the hiss resonance takes them over, polaris is a benevolent force that simply shields most people from the hiss and lightly guides Jesse (Main character) both prior to and during the events of the game in while they're in dangerous situations
The "them" is probably referring to the hiss resonance and how after entering the same dimension, nothing halted it any way (besides hedron/polaris)
Altered world events are anomalous situations that occur, often involving an "object of power" both the "light that can hijack your mind" and "safe that's encased in a shield of debris" are examples of OoPs, them both being different objects of power, more examples of OoPs include the projector, which allows visiting other dimensions, the flying TV mentioned in the song, and the floppy disk being held by stupendium at that moment, which held nuclear launch codes, and gives telekinesis (telekinetically LAUNCHing)
"These Frequencies frequently the key to what's perceived to be" is likely anothe reference to the hiss resonance, and how when you are taken over by it, you are trapped in a false facade, where things seem normal, but nothing you are seeing is real and you are doing nothing, realizing this seems to cause the facade to drop away and the experience becomes more distorted (I really don't know exactly how to describe this)
"Free your mind" is again also likely a reference to the hiss resonance and how it takes people over.
Fun fact: it as this song that got me to play Control.
After having listened to it several times, I still missed the dang 'Rule of 3' the first time I tried to go to the Ocean View. Pulled once, stepped forward cause I thought it was like an effect or something (and there was still a lot of dark) and fell to my death.
And yet, *in the song* you can see Stups pull the cord *3* times.
*headdesk*
I know people have mentioned this before, but you should _really_ watch the outros of Stupendium's videos. They're very much part of the experience. It almost hurts to see you just immediately pause the video and miss out on the outro.
Honestly, my favorite part of this is that they actually made a sort of chorus out of the Hiss Chant. That's what those three segments of "You hear our words, but you forget" and "pushing through the first floor" are, parts of that Chant that have been tweaked a bit to make it flow better.
I haven't played the game however, I take this song and understand it in a totally different light.
In my mind, Higher Dimensional Intelligent beings do exist. We just can't see or hear them. We know higher dimensions exist but are inaccessible to us.
"A copy of a copy of copy" basically in another place, another world much like the one we live in, there's another version of you. Going through similar actions that you do but in rare moments a copy of you differs from that track.
This song while made based on a game, depicts topics that are very much a thing. These topics I enjoy discussing.
What's absolutely rediculous and awesome about this song is that I 100% get your meaning, and agree with it. But because I have played the game, there's a whole new layer to it as well that also makes sense. It's amazing how he weaved together lore, plot, and made it easily enjoyable for those not in the fandom.
The 'Copy of a copy of a copy' is actually a reference to a viral incantation/resonance that infects your mind and grants an extradimensional hive-mind control over your body. The hive-mind is called the Hiss, and it's the main... 'Enemy' of the game? It's the thing you're trying to stop, I mean.
Basically what I'm trying to say is, the 'copy of a copy of a copy' line DOES reference inter-dimensional powers beyond what humanity considers normal, just in a different way than you interpreted it.
Man I love your energy. The way you talk seems to me that you're the kind of guy who even on a bad day will put a smile and let the bad mood slide into the void. That feeling in infectious, so, thanks for all of your videos. After seeing two or three I feel a little better to deal with the other stuff.
Reason why stupendiums normal rapping in this is "weird" is because, normally he raps to give synapsis or he sings through multiple people to give the story.. Here he raps thro one person, and that person is trying to help you. Which gives it entirely new feeling, since only reason you would know my statement to be true is to have played the game. Projector parts are obv. different scema to give information. Putting them together + being unfamiliar with the game story + having understanding of normal stupendium leaves creepy feeling.. and tbh, it speaks about stupendiums (&dan bulls) lyrical mastermind that the same feeling will be there whether you know the game or not, just for different reasons.. or the same.. the games theme is kinda easy to grasp... (And as a Finnish guy, I am obligated by law(kidding) to praise it, since made in Finland + Janitor is reference to Finnish mythology)
lol the death and taxes song was seen and loves by the creators enough for him to voice a character in the dlc lol
Stupes has _massive_ Rod Serling energy in this video. This video made me fall in love with the game a year before I actually played it when it finally came to Steam.
Well that was fucken wierd, I'm Rod Serling, and do you know where your fingers are?
I’m getting shivers 😰 this is so good
Seriously. Control is a big game Into itself, that being said if you haven't played it in full, you're missing the Finnish tango. For those that know, ya know.
Haven't played the game so it's hard to put a finger on the meaning, but I like the song a lot. The lyrics are like a bunch of puzzle pieces that you can almost put together. Then you look at the pieces and they have oxymorons written on them.
I highly suggest playing it, or watching a playthrough of it, it's one of my favourite games to date
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I’m just here because cami-cat been working sooo hard lately, I’m still trying to get into the stupendium tbh
A song of his calle " I.C.A" is lit, you'll love that track, it's my favorite of his.
@@JayemelMusicUniverse16 You mean The Apex?
@@greywolf9783 my bad, you're right lol. Thanks for the correction.
@@JayemelMusicUniverse16 its fine
@@JayemelMusicUniverse16 All that matters Is I understood what you said
I really love all the double meanings and wordplay in this song. Also my favourite song to lift my mood :)
The vibe is amazing and Control is a favourite of mine as well
You gotta do the vending machine of love. Also you should listen to the taking at the end, it always has jokes and such
I love this song. It is one of my favorite songs that Stupendium has done. I have not played the game Control at all, so I get a lot of life choices vibes from this. For example, people look for education/direction/distraction, then proceed forward with their choice. I love the meta analogies' that can be made through stories.
i actually bought this game BECAUSE of this video.... and Ooooo OMG I love it... but it is HARD AF!!! ... YAY!!! and TY DAVE for doing this to me... um.. i meant... um... >.>
I'd summarise his style as mostly not making songs about games but making songs from game worlds. Then how they can run parallel to ours sometimes as well.
Thanks for this reaction.
Surprised I havent heard of this guy thanks for introducing him to me.
I love how the whole of his song is in reference too the plot of the game
Was watching forward for this, Thanks!
good reaction as always, thanks for the content
Yknow, I knew these guys made video game music. I didn't even know what game.this was from at first. I don't like most of their stuff. But this song just hits different
It's like being on psychedelics or astrally projecting. It's eerie, psuedo real. It feels like desperately clawing around in madness for answers to questions. But you don't even know what the question is.
You got it right when you said this song is about more than the game.
Loved your reaction, you have a really nice and calming voice
I will say, my initial reaction to this was that nothing really makes any sense if you look into it. It proposed a theory to me that we wouldn't understand the truthful answers to a lot of humanity's philosophical questions, none of it would make any sense. I felt that especially when you see the sort of before and after of the scientist in the video, and how he just drives himself crazy trying to understand something that doesn't make sense. I'm sure the characters have a lot of importance and the song is pretty much just about the game, but that's the message it gave me. Some things are best taken at face value and ultimately we are not the deciders of what is and isn't sensible.
I really hope you do his Dan Bull Scrabble dissertation, as well as the Chairman of The Board. They are so good.
Even if you don’t include it in the reaction, make sure to watch the end for each video. It is always on theme and most often ends on some witty line or pun. :)
Huge fan of your vids, The Stupendium, and of Control. I would always recommend someone to check out the game and finish it for themselves. I finished it twice, including the DLCs, and still get confused when I try to remember it.
So first things first is that I really love this song it's one of my favorites by the stupendium secondly my boy got that cut
I love your reaction videos 👌👏💕
aww baby boy.. you are in some dangerous ground these days ... and i love you for it ♥
Yo, Dave is putting in work today 😂
You should listen to his merch songs even those are amazing
What this song means to me is:
A fractured reality
Fucking stupendium baby. Let's fucking goooo
You absolutely have to react to Vending Machine of Love!!!!!
Also you should play the game its actually based on lovecraftian influences. H.p. lovecraft horror projects the uselessness and madness that impossibilities can push on a humans mind.
Love the reaction! I recommend one of the frostpunk or one of the hitman songs.
Good Show
Last time I came this early I was told to leave
Oh man you time traveled to make this video because I just saw it, lol..
I really like his other songs to you should listen to how the west was one
I think Stu's Darling is better than the games.
I feel like you couldn't possibly understand this without playing the game, probably. I haven't played it so I have no idea.
I honestly doubt the people that play the game will understand it either. lol
Not me getting heavy Stephen King's The Institute vibes (speaking as someone who has never heard the song before or played the game, something of which will be I immediately absorbing all knowledge of after this video is over-)
Can you "beat" "Control", I mean yeah, but when I finished it I just fell silent.
Sure Finnish guy loving games by a Finnish company, I didn't like Alan Wake that much, but Control was something else.
I'll never understand why stups included the sections where cami cat just says non rhyming weird half sentences in an off beat.
Like seriously why the fuck is that in this otherwise amazing song?
the “you don’t want to be” parts? Those are lines from the Hiss Chant, a chant played in Control, endlessly, in the background. It’s actually amazing that he found a way to include such an esoteric part of Control.
Heart this if you have a crush on me, Dave
Nope.
@@whatitdodave Your leading me on, dave. Your leading me on, DAVE